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And Rust are almost-always mentioned in threads about Go :)

They are the two new systems languages on the block, which take quite different approaches. It makes perfect sense that they would be compared often.

There are plenty of people in this thread also complaining about aspects of Rust and its development.

Except that go is hardly a "new" system language.

It's 6 years old as opposed to 43 years old, I would call that new.

Or even a "system" language :-)

Because there is a battle going on. The lines are being drawn. People who where fighting this battle will see this happening before those who were unaware to start with; however, the lines are now being drawn thanks to Edward Snowden, and this battle is becoming visible to all.

Meaning: GO was dead at birth from out of the sphincter of the NSA.